New Delhi .With increasing age, the body's mobility, i.e. the ability to do daily activities, starts getting affected. Even simple tasks like walking, sitting, getting up from a chair and standing may gradually become difficult. As weakness in the legs increases, the risk of falling and injury also increases, after which many people may have to take help from others for movement.
Walking is often considered a useful activity for maintaining fitness as we age. However, regular walking alone is not considered sufficient for strengthening legs and knees. Many people, despite walking for a long time, may find it difficult to climb stairs, get up from a chair or do daily tasks by bending their knees.
Physiotherapist John Thomson, based on his experience of working with elderly people, said that relying only on walking is not enough to strengthen the legs. According to him, people have also been seen who had been walking for years, but had trouble climbing stairs and getting up from a chair.
Walking is a beneficial activity for the body, but it has some limitations when it comes to leg and joint strength. There is relatively less movement of the knees while walking. On the contrary, in many everyday tasks the knees have to be bent more. It is necessary to bend the knees adequately in activities like going to the toilet, sitting and then standing.
For this reason, such exercises have been said to be useful in which the legs and knee joints get more movement. It takes about one minute to do the exercises mentioned for this. It also works on strengthening the knees along with the legs and involves deep knee bends.
For this, exercises like sitting and getting up from the chair have to be done like situp squats. First sit on a chair and then stand up from there. After this, sit again and then stand. It has been suggested to repeat this process 30 times continuously.
This activity of repeatedly sitting up and getting up from a chair gives the legs and knees the exercise they need for everyday movement. It has been described as a simple form of squats, which even elderly people can do. The purpose of this exercise is to give the legs and joints the opportunity to work in a more active manner.
According to the mentioned method, instead of just walking, such exercises can also be included in the routine, which involve bending the knees and lifting and sitting the body. This can help maintain the ability to perform daily mobility activities such as getting up from sitting and walking without support.
Although, in the given information, this one-minute exercise has been linked to the strength of legs and knees, but the method and number of doing it should be as per the capacity of the person. It is important to take care of your physical capacity while exercising, especially if legs and knees become weak with increasing age.